Wen Zhiming started with Su Dongpo's Ci, and later learned from Zhi Yong, Ou Yangxun and Zhao Mengfu, which can be seen from his works before the age of 50, such as Xu Yun's Epitaph, Poems on Paintings, Zhao Ertie and Poems on Stopping Clouds. At the age of 54, he went to Beijing and waited for letters at the official Hanlin Academy. He established a patent system for books, advocated neatness, and learned the popular fonts at that time. Therefore, the running script is known as the "jade version of the holy religion." Two years later, at the age of 56, he resigned and returned to his hometown. "Man Zi doesn't know Yingzhou Music, and Meng Qing is still in his hometown", but he stayed in Yun Yun Pavilion for a long time. In his later years, he learned more about the posture of Huanggu Valley and integrated it with seal script, which was very creative.
Xiao Zhuan is basically based on "Shengjiao", Zhiyong, Su and Mi. It is written with hard pen and skillful brushwork. History books will describe it as "the phoenix dances beautifully, and the spring sings the bamboo creek". In all fairness, Wen Zhiming's brushwork is skillful and fluent, but there are also some shortcomings, such as lack of meaning, excessive statutes and lack of charm. His books Qian Wen Zi, Fu on the Red Wall and Preface to Wang Tengting are all columns of Wu Si. Although it is smooth from beginning to end, it gives people a feeling of "centralized". His big-character running script, especially his works in his later years, is Huang Gu's posture and brushwork. As soon as he changed his posture, he became aboveboard, vigorous and elegant, and the realm was exhausted. His teacher Shen Zhou also avoided. For example, Poems on a Tour to Tianchi Lake and Postscript Poems from Emperor Gaozong to Yue Fei are striking and unusual, which can be described as "elegant, good bone and good rhyme".